Our Daily Dead

Former President Gerald Ford is dead at 93.

Mark K. Updegrove writing at SFGate.com reports that Ford wished to be remembered as a ‘healer and a builder’

The New York Times article called Ford ‘an accidental President’. The Times goes further and says that ‘…he was everything his predecessor was not — transparent and largely content with life as he found it. His many friends saw him as plain old “Jerry,” a get-along, go-along product of the House of Representatives whose self-assurance and modest ambitions perfectly suited a country that wanted little more than a few months’ rest’. Indeed.

Lots of happy praise all about it seems. To get a slightly different angle you might try the story from Peace, Earth and Justice News. You won’t quite believe your eyes at who is to be seen in the article’s accompanying picture. PEJ.org decidedly brings you another view of Ford and the Nixon-Ford complex.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Environmental News
Our mindful Left Coast reporter Bill recently filed this story regarding the passing of one Tim Mckay: Tim was an activist and long time executive director of the Northcoast Environmental Center (NEC) in Arcata. He passed Sunday of an apparent heart attack whilst birding at Stone Lagoon. He was 59. As a rare bird himself, one hopes that perhaps his heart gave out after seeing the rarest bird on his life list. He was the main man at the NEC for most of it’s thirty five year existence. Making sure that environmental wrongs were exposed and then corrected,he was needed not only by us enviros but also by the Charles Hurwitzs’ and Harry Merlos’ of the world, as every evil doer needs their Batman.

Editor’s note: Tim McKay’s reported last sighting was of a Cooper’s Hawk. You may of course interpret this as per your current theology/philosophy/&etc deems reasonable.

Emulating Big-Ben? News
Bryant Leon Sutphin sadly exited primarily due to his road-tripping sans helmet.

Family Values meets Common Sense News
Andy Richardson was beaten to death in the mosh pit at a recent Korn concert. Apparently Mr. Richardson took his heavily pregnant wife and mentally challenged offspring into the mosh pit and asked others in said pit to kindly refrain from jostling his companions. Missing the entire emphasis of the current Korn tour another mosh piter punched Mr. Richardson in the head whereupon he fell heavily to the concrete floor.

Alcohol As Truth Serum News
Is anyone truely surprised by Mel Gibson’s rant? Seriously? Consider the bizarre religious beliefs Mr. Gibson (son AND especially father) hold near and dear and Ta! Da! Mel’s anti-Semitism rant seems to have an obvious launch pad: in Mel’s tiny world the Jews are responsible for what he believes is the most heinous crime in all of history - the death of Jesus. Perhaps a ticket price refund is in order. We do know that Mel skipped the On Deck circle and rushed his career directly to the front of the Our Daily Dead queue. We didn’t realize that Mel and Tom were related, did you?

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Lloyd Bentsen, vice-presidential running mate of Michael Dukakis, is dead from complications of a stroke. Bentsen took the cheap-shot at Dan Quayle in the vice-president candidate debates, the political equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel. By good accounts, Bentsen was a decent man, and this fell below his level of dignity, but did give him a moment of historical remembrance. Do good, maybe get credit; say something mean and pandering and gain fame. Go figure. Go soak your head.

Bar’s open.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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